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Bad Acts: The Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry

In short, Defendants have marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception, with a single‐minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted
American Journal of Public Health
added Jun 18, 2013 12:05
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AUDIO: Listen to an interview with author, Sharon Eubanks from the Sound Medicine Radio Show (11:46)

EdgeCast Networks
added Jun 18, 2013 11:52
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A Brilliant Book Illustrator Who Broke the Rules / ‘Far Out Isn’t Far Enough,’ About Tomi Ungerer

Among the speakers on camera are an erudite Jules Feiffer and a grizzled, vehement Maurice Sendak. But no one is more compelling than the white-haired, constantly smoking Mr. Ungerer, whose eloquence and luminous eyes command attention.
New York Times
added Jun 14, 2013 00:17
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[Canada] WOOLLEY: What The Lives Of Smokers Can Tell Us About Economic Tradeoffs

John Broome’s book Weighing Livestakes on some hard questions about longevity. Increasing one person’s life has costs, either because it takes up resources that could have been used to improve another person’s life, or because it decreases that person’s l
Business Insider
added May 24, 2013 12:22
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'A Smoker's Guide to Health & Fitness' is Released

In their new book, "A Smoker's Guide to Health & Fitness," sibling authors physician Tamir Katz and writer and researcher Hila Katz argue that, in addition to smoking cessation, a smoker's health can be greatly improved through a proper diet, regular exe
BroadwayWorld.com
added May 3, 2013 16:05
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Seeking the Ardent Life, Finding It and Sharing It / Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’

reprinted on the cover of “Country Girl,” Ms. O’Brien’s new memoir. It depicts the young author, cigarette clasped between her middle fingers, glancing to her left at some unseen provocation. The photograph is suggestive of both innocence and experience.
New York Times
added Apr 30, 2013 05:56
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[South Carolina] Memories of King Tobacco

Eldred Prince and Benton Henry’s book “The Great Harvest: Remembering Tobacco in the Pee Dee” tells the story of the once golden crop and the people that grew it.
WBTW Channel 13
added Apr 14, 2013 12:29
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[Virginia] South Boston author remembers 'When Tobacco was Good'

In his recently released book, “Once Upon A Time…When Tobacco was Good,” Mills tells of a time in the not so distant past when being in the business of raising tobacco was a very, prestigious and much sought after way of earning a living. A few proud p
South Boston (VA) Gazette-Virginian
added Apr 8, 2013 09:23
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[Asia, China] In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism

Nan Enstad’s book in progress, “The Jim Crow Cigarette: Following Tobacco Road From North Carolina to China and Back,” examines how Southern tobacco workers, and Southern racial ideology, helped build the Chinese cigarette industry in the early 20th centu
New York Times
added Apr 7, 2013 10:17
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[Oklahoma] Looking Ahead to Local Control of Tobacco Regulation

“A direct vote to the people is very new, and is a dramatic new tactic to repeal tobacco control preemption in Oklahoma,” said Michael Givel, a University of Oklahoma political scientist and the co-author of the upcoming book Heartland Tobacco War, out t
KGOU Radio (Norman, OK)
added Mar 26, 2013 13:58
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